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Stinky The Clown

(67,819 posts) Thu Nov 30, 2017, 10:51 PM Nov 2017

Panama's Noriega comes to mind . . . .

. . . . what other national leaders actually went to prison?

Marcos was run out on a rail but escaped to . . . . Hawaii.

I think one of the clowns from the Balkans went to prison.

Can you add to the list?

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Panama's Noriega comes to mind . . . . (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Nov 2017 OP

Ceasescu, Ghaddafi, and Saddam Hussein wish they had been sent to prison. Sneederbunk Nov 2017 #1

And Mussolini dawg day Dec 2017 #2

Batista (Cuba) went into exile... dawg day Dec 2017 #3

Sneederbunk

(14,308 posts)

1. Ceasescu, Ghaddafi, and Saddam Hussein wish they had been sent to prison.

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Thu Nov 30, 2017, 11:00 PM

Nov 2017

dawg day

(7,947 posts)

2. And Mussolini

Reply to Sneederbunk (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 1, 2017, 03:17 AM

Dec 2017

dawg day

(7,947 posts)

3. Batista (Cuba) went into exile...

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Fri Dec 1, 2017, 03:27 AM

Dec 2017

In Portugal.
Estoril (a seaside resort there) used to be the choice exile of monarchs-- I found an old newspaper article about it.
Umberto of Italy and
Carol of Rumania; the for
mer Regent of Hungary
(Admiral Horthy)
Don Juan,
claimant to the Spanish
throne, the Comte de Paris,
the French Pretender, and
Archduke Joseph Francis, of Hapsburg.
Juan Carlos (or maybe his son?) actually went back home to Spain after Franco died.

Baby Doc Duvalier went into exile too. But weirdly, he came back after 20 years or so, was tried in Haiti, and died there.

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